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NIGEL SPIVEY. The Ancient Olympics.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 273. $39-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Onno M. van NijfKAUSHIK ROY. From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999.New Delhi: Manohar, 2004. Pp. 283. Rs 595. Reviewed by Pradeep BaruaNATHAN ROSENSTEIN. Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. x, 339. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Elena IsayevHENRY CHADWICK. East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x,306. $203.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian WoodCHRISTOPHER TYERMAN. Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 247. $37.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-SmithMARGARET L. KEKEWICH and SUSAN ROSE. Britain, France, and the Empire, 1350–1500.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 308. $23.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John FranceOM PRAKASH. Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500–1800.New Delhi: Manohar, 2004. Pp. 426. Rs 850. Reviewed by Anthony DisneyHARRO HÖPFL. Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c.1540–1630.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 406. $90.00 (us). Reviewed by John Patrick Donnelly, SJRICHMOND BARBOUR. Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576–1626.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 238. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence ManleyLYNN A. STRUVE, ed. The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 412. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by John W. DardessFA-TI FAN. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 238. $49–95 (us). Reviewed by Peter C. PerdueKRISTINA BROSS. Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 357. $21.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Daniel K. RichterRAFAEL DE BIVAR MARQUESE. Feitores do corpo, missionários da mente: Senhores, letrados e o controle dos escravos nos Américas, 1660–1860.Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004. Pp. 479. R$66.oo. Reviewed by Enrico Dal RagoJAMES PRITCHARD. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 484. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by John G. ReidJOHN D. GRAINGER. The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte, 1801–1803.Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 222. $85.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon BurrowsTIMOTHY HAWKINS. José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 283. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark A. BurkholderJON KUKLA. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003; dist. Toronto: Random House of Canada. Pp. x, 430. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by H. W. BrandsJULIAN GWYN. Ashore and Afloat: The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard before 1820.Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. xvii, 366. $60.00 (CDN), clodi; $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Daniel A. BaughTREVOR R. GETZ. Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast.Athens: Ohio University Press; and Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xix, 257. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Gregory MannANDREAS NEHRING. Orientalismus und Mission: Die Repräsentation der tamilischen Gesellschaft und Religion durch Leipziger Missionare, 1840–1940.Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. Pp. 500. €48.00. Reviewed by Penelope CarsonBRUCE L. BATTEN. To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 337. $39.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark J. HudsonCHARLES DESNOYERS, trans, widi an intro. A Journey to the East: Li Gui's A New Account of a Trip around the Globe.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 320. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard J. SmithISABEL V. HULL. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 384. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Holger H. HerwigJOHN C. G. RÖHL. Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888–1900,trans. Sheila de Bellaigue. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 1,287. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Lamar CecilJAMES BENNETT. ‘Rats and Revolutionaries’: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand, 1890–1940.Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 214. $39.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Donald DenoonTONY KUSHNER. We Europeans? Mass-Observation, ‘Race’, and British Identity in the Twentieth Century.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xi, 281. $99.95 (us). Reviewed by Martin FrancisMIRA WILKINS. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 980. $95.00 (us). Reviewed by Alfred E. EckesTANJA LUCKINS. The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War.Fremande: Curtin University Books, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 304. $26.95 (us). Reviewed by Christina TwomeyPHILIP AYRES. Owen Dixon.Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xx, 400. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Geoffrey BoltonMICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929–1946.Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 308. $69.50. Reviewed by James SearingJEFFREY J. MATTHEWS. Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era.Lanham: Scholarly Resources, 2004. Pp. xxii, 263. $26.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Anders StephansonHENRIK LUNDBAK. Danish Unity: A Political Party between Fascism and Resistance, 1936–1947.Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2003; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp.312. $31.00 (us). Reviewed by Nils Arne SorensenUWE LÜBKEN. Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937–1945.Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 438. €50.00. Reviewed by Andreas FahrmerJOSHUA H. HOWARD. Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937–1953.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 452. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Stephen G. GraftS. P. MACKENZIE. The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 446. $57.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Barbara Hately-BroadSTEPHEN G. FRITZ. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 382. $57–75 (CDN). Reviewed by Jill StephensonJAMES C. VAN HOOK. Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945–1957.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 312. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Gary HerrigelPATRICK IRELAND. Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State.Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 274. $27.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Judith RoosbladWILLIAM J. DAUGHERTY. Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 298. $32.50 (us). Reviewed by James C. Van HookHERMAN LEBOVICS. Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 232. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Donald ReidGERT OOSTINDIE and INGE KLINKERS. Decolonizing the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective.Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003; dist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 291. $35.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Helen HitjensNICHOLAS TARLING. International Students in New Zealand: The Making of Policy since 1950.Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, 2004. Pp. 238. $35.00 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Ann TrotterMICHAEL J. COHEN. Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954–1960.London and New York: Frank Cass, 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $65.00 (us); CLIVE JONES. Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962–1965: Ministers, Mercenaries, and Mandarins: Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action.Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 273. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold PetersenCIHAT GÖKTEPE. British Foreign Policy towards Turkey, 1959–1965. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xii, 236. $59.60 (us). Reviewed by Nur Bilge CrissMARTIN KOFLER. Kennedy und Österreich: Neutralität im Kalten Krieg.Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2003. Pp. 181. €19.50, paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. GranieriALICE L. GEORGE. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xxiii, 238. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by G. F. GoodwinHOWARD JONES. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 562. $56.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ralph B. LeveringGIL FEILER. Economic Relations between Egypt and the Gulf Oil States, 1967–2000: Petro-Wealth and Patterns of Influence.Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 407. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert LooneyJUSSI HANHIMÄKI. The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 554. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Richard C. ThorntonDAVID FARBER. Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 212. $22.95 (us). Reviewed by James A. BillPATRICIA MARCHAK. Reigns of Terror.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 306. $27.95 (CDN)> paper; BENJAMIN A. VALENTINO. Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 317. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Otis L. ScottJOHN LEWIS GADDIS. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 150. $18.95 (us). Reviewed by Ronald SteelJEREMI SURI. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 355. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael GeyerJOHN HAGAN. Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 274. $29.00 (us). Reviewed by Paul R. WilliamsNATHAN E. BUSCH. No End in Sight: The Continuing Menace of Nuclear Proliferation.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 490. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Sumit GangulyBRUCE CRONIN. Institutions for the Common Good: International Protection Regimes in International Society.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 234. $75.00 (us), cloth; $25.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Linda B. MillerSTEPHEN BIDDLE. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 337. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Ted HopfBOB MILWARD. Globalisation? Internationalisation and Monopoly Capitalism: Historical Processes and Capitalist Dynamism.Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003. Pp. viii, 198. $85.00 (us). Reviewed by Björn HettneIDO OREN. Our Enemies and US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 234. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by David N. GibbsJEFFREY W. TALIAFERRO. Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 304. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Richard J. HarknettRICHARD W. BULLIET. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization.New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 187. $24.50 (us). Reviewed by Johannes J.G. JansenP. W. SINGER. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 330. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Kim Richard NossalBRADLEY A. THAYER. Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 425. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Johan M.G. van der DennenBENJAMIN R. BARBER. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy.New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. 220. $23.95 (us). Reviewed by William C. WohlforthD. SCOTT BENNETT and ALLAN C. STAM. The Behavioral Origins of War.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 289. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Jack Snyder

BRUCE G. TRIGGER. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 757. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert McC. AdamsJOHN A. LYNN. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture.Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 399. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Hew StrachanRICHARD A. GABRIEL. The Great Armies of Antiquity.Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 430. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by R. M. SheldonK. R. HOWE. The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?Auckland and London: Penguin, 2003. Pp. 235. $29.95 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Hugh LaracyALAN K. BOWMAN, HANNAH M. COTTON, MARTIN GOODMAN, and SIMON PRICE, eds. Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; published for The British Academy. Pp. xi, 196. $69.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Arthur M. EcksteinHUGH M. THOMAS. The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity, 1066–C.1220.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 462. $195.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Marjorie ChibnallJOHN V. TOLAN. Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 372. $22.50 (US), paper; JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 322. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Roger CollinsFRANCESC RELAÑO. The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographie Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x, 271. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoROGER FRENCH. Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. v, 289. $60.00 (US), cloth; $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John NorrisGLENN BURGER, LESLEY B. CORMACK, JONATHAN HART, and NATALIA PYLYPIUK, eds. Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel.Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 284. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter C. PerdueBARBARA GANSON. The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 290. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. BurkholderALAN GALLAY. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John M. MurrinCOLIN JONES and DROR WAHRMAN, eds. The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750–1820.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 293. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Simon BurrowsMARGARETTE LINCOLN. Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiii, 226. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul WebbEDWARD DUYKER. Citizen LabiUardière: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834).Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2003. Pp. xx, 383. $69.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Donald DenoonDANILYN RUTHERFORD. Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 296. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James J. FoxDONALD KEENE. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 922. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by James L. HuffmanTERENCE ZUBER. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871–1914.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Elizabeth GreenhalghFRANZ ADLGASSER, ed. Die Aehrenthals: Eine Familie in ihrer Korrespondenz 1872– 1911,2 vols. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 1,015. €159.00. Reviewed by Lothar HöbletERIKA LEE. At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. 331. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Madeline Y. HsuCHRISTAUD M. GEARY, with an essay by Krzysztof Pluskota. In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885–1960.London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2002; dist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 128. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Phyllis M. MartinPAUL R. BRUMPTON. Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office.Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 245. $64.95 (US); JENNIFER SIEGEL. Endgame: Britain, Russia, and the Final Struggle for Central Asia.London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002; dist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 273. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Sneh MahajanMADELEINE HERREN and SACHA ZALA. Netzwerk Aussenpolitik: Internationale Kongresse und Organisational als Instrumente der schweizerischen Aussenpolitik, 1914– 1950.Zürich: Chronos, 2002. Pp. 314. €25.90, paper. Reviewed by Laurent GoetschelANDREW GREEN. Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915–1948.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xv, 239. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Brian BondGLENN WATKINS. Proof through the Night: Music and the Great War.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 598. $49.95 (US) (with CD). Reviewed by Jay WinterP. G. A. ORDERS. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Challenge of the United States, 1939–46: A Study in International History.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. vii, 262. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by David DayCHRISTOF MAUCH. The Shadow War against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service,trans. Jeremiah M. Riemer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 333. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Raymond MillenATHANASIOS LYKOGIANNIS. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine.Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 287. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Philip CarabottALAN E. STEINWEIS and DANIEL E. ROGERS, eds. The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy.Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 260. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.TERRY COPP. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy: The 1998 Joanne Goodman Lectures.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 344. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Desmond MortonBRENDA GAYLE PLUMMER, ed. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 259. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank NinkovichHUGH WILFORD. The CIA, the British Left, and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 328. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. CullDEBRA J. ALLEN. The Oder-Neisse Line: The United States, Poland, and Germany in the Cold War.Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 309. $67.95 (US). Reviewed by Sabine LeeNIGEL GROOM. Sheba Revealed: A Posting to Bayhan in the Yemen.London: London Centre of Arab Studies, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. xv, 296. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Sheila CarapicoROBERT MCNAMARA. Britain, Nasser, and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, 1952–1967: From the Egyptian Revolution to the Six Day War.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 308. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Ritchie OvendaleILYA V. GAIDUK. Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 19544–1963.Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 286. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael SharePAMELA BALLINGER. History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 328. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Cathie CarmichaelJAMES VOORHEES. Dialogue Sustained: The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference.Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press and die Charles F. Kettering Foundation, 2002. Pp. xvii, 470. $24.95 (US), paper; MATTHEW J. OUIMET. The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 309. $90.75 (CDN), clodi; $49.50 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Robert D. EnglishSHELDON M. STERN. Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 459. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Ned LebowPATRICIA M. PELLEY. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 326. $19.95 (US), paper; PHILIP E. CATTON. Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. x, 298. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark W. McLeodDENISE LEITH. The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 347. $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Howard DickTHOMAS GRAHAM, JR. and DAMIEN J. LAVERA. Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press; Washington, DC: Nuclear Threat Initiative, 2003. Pp. xvi, 1,487. $125.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael KreponPETER URMETZER. From Free Trade to Forced Trade: Canada in the Global Economy.Toronto: Penguin; Montreal: McGill Institute, 2003. Pp. 248. $22.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Doug OwramMARJORIE GRIFFIN COHEN and STEPHEN MCBRIDE, eds. Global Turbulence: Social Activists' and State Responses to Globalization.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 196. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter J. SmithEDWARD KEENE. Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism, and Order in World Politics.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 165. $21.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Hendrik SpruytGEORGE P. FLETCHER. Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 251. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter KarstenDAVID C. ENGERMAN, NILS GILMAN, MARK H. HAEFELE, and MICHAEL E. LATHAM, eds. Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War.Araherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 283. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bradley R. SimpsonJOSEPH S. NYE, Jr. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 222. $19.95 (CDN), paper. 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